That should actually read, “GIVE THEM SHEEP FOR MY BIRTHDAY!” So I had a blast on my big bold beautiful day yesterday, the day of my birth, August 3, 2011. Loads of items and well wishes and Ana may have created a monster with a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a wine we’ve thought about since its…
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” miss rosie when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato peels or when I watch you in your old man’s shoes with the little toe cut out sitting, waiting for your mind like next…
Read more Lucille Clifton, June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010
WHETTING EXCERPTS: …In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog— …Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores. They may fear adventure in my world, but I inhabit theirs in multiple ways—and am them. …Queer poets especially locate…
A brand new sixth finch sings out with poems and art, including new work from Ana Božičević! Go visit!
I’m not fond of this awesome blog’s name, “Women Against Sarah Palin,” (wish it were “People Against McCain’s Camp,” though that wouldn’t draw as much attention), but I *am* down with the sentiment behind the naming: Just because McCain picked a female running-mate doesn’t instantly mean women will blindly vote for her. Palin’s got some…
Ana Bozicevic portrays Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale in Long Island, NY. Miller Oberman appears as The Marble Faun. Kerry Carnahan refuses to play Mother Bouvier. Amy King documents a haphazard situation. Check out the house; it’s for real. ~~~~ The Real Edie Bouvier Beale (below) ~~~~ See More “Production” Photos at Flickr Legacy Interest…
Anne Sexton’s reading of “All My Pretty Ones” mixed with Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street – For Anne Sexton” (song link contains lyrics and lots of commentary) from the 1989 album “So”.
That is, another fellow city dweller, poet and Tarpaulin Sky publisher, Christian Peet, jumped the ship of Brooklyn long before I did for gorgeous Vermont and has recently taken up the rickshaw as a means of fighting big oil and making a nickel here and there for supplies. A note from his site, “My best…
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on ‘donating a mammogram’ for free (pink window in…
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz July 10 – August 22, 2008 P * P * O * W Pilkington – Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc. 555 W. 25th Street – New York, NY 10001 Artists Participating: Sadie Benning Michael Bilsborough Shannon Ebner Mike Estabrook Brendan Fowler William E. Jones Lovett/Codagnone Keith…
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“We used to go over to the railroad track and play,” she said. “We’d take straight pins, lay them on the railroad track and make little alphabets out of them. We’d know just about the time when the train was either coming or going, and the train would run over the pins and mash them…
Since Ms. Clinton began her campaign, there certainly has been a public resurgence in misogyny, starting with my long-lost father sending me Hillary Clinton jokes via email. No call on my birthday or Christmas, but I warrant jokes in which a presidential candidate ends up dead, raped, and mocked? That’s emotionally-charged action from a man…
The Associated Press – Thursday, April 17, 2008 PARIS: The esteemed Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire, a leading figure in the movement for black consciousness, died Thursday, the French president’s office and a hospital said. He was 94. Césaire was involved in the fight for French West Indian rights, and he also served as…
Never a more generous man have I met than poet and friend, Matthew Rotando. I take great pleasure in singing the praises of his first book of poems, THE COMEBACK’S EXOSKELETON. I wish you could all know him too, as you will find that once you fall in love with this collection, you will long…
If I had a woman, I’d play this Tom Waits’ re-make for her. If I had to live in the suburbs, I’d pick North Massapequa, former home of Christine Jorgensen, who was the world’s first publicized sex change star. If I had to live in North Massapequa, originally settled by the Native Americans of the…
Yes, that’s John Travolta and Kirk Douglas lip wrestling, but this post is about much more than curing the daily — Jim K wrote a quick review of my recent Dusie chap, Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (send your address to amyhappens @ gmail dot com for a copy). And thank you,…
I have just finished sending out my chapbook copies for the DUSIE Chapbook Kollectiv. The title is this post’s title. I have a few copies left over, so if you’re interested in receiving one – freely and imminently – I’ll post it to you before the holidays. My DUSIE chapbook from last year…
Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers How about a pleasant poem to start your month off right? Ugly Duckling has smartly created a Eastern European Poets Series that we Americans might benefit from. I am currently immersed in Lidija Dimkovska’s most excellent book, DO NOT AWAKEN THEM WITH HAMMERS, translated by Peggy Reid – yay!…
I hope to make something this lovely one day. Listen to Iron and Wine’s new album, “The Shepherd’s Dog”, at Rolling Stone (scroll down a bit), read about it at Pitchfork, or watch the video below of Sam Beam performing “The Resurrection Fern” (click here to find out what one is). This entry was posted…
AMY KING 